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Permalink Reply by Tim Hale on November 11, 2010 at 4:58pm

Karen,

A lot of people get confused on this point. The frac companies must list all ingredients at the job sites and on their trucks as with any materials. What the exact formula is, as you could guess, is a matter of confidental manner. Sort of like asking Coke whats in the bottle verse asking...ok Coke..give me the exact formula.

Tim Hale

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Permalink Reply by Karen on November 11, 2010 at 5:20pm

Hi Tim,
I learn a lot here! Thank you!

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Permalink Reply by Tim Hale on November 11, 2010 at 6:26pm

The environmentalists are playing with words to scare the public....in order to achieve their goals of stopping any industrial activity. The sad truth is that natural gas is a heck of a lot better for pennsylvania than foreign oil and dirty coal....environmentally speaking. The water used to stimulate a gas well is 99.5% water and sand. The .5% of the chemicals are used to control algae and to reduce friction in the process. The solution is injected in the formation approx. 1 - 2 miles below the surface and it can not nor will not interact with the water table.....its a mile of solid rock below the water table. What i find interesting is that this process was first developed in Pennsylvania in the 1940's and used on a regular basis in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisana....without so much as a thought since. Why are my fellow Pennsylvanians afraid of their new found wealth?

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Permalink Reply by SA Frank on November 12, 2010 at 7:51am

Well said. A lot of the natural gas companies are listing the frac additives on their websites. Check our Ranges website for a description of chemicals (under hydraulic fracturing fact sheet :
http://www.rangeresources.com/Home.aspx

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Permalink Reply by Mike Knapp on November 12, 2010 at 11:13am

Here's a great document to inform yourself about all the "SCARY CHEMICALS" in fracwater.

http://www.energyindepth.org/frac-fluid.pdf

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